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Biden’s Support Slips With Black Men as Trump Makes Inroads, WSJ Poll Finds – WSJ

By Thomas A. Smith

President Biden faces a dual-natured challenge to shore up his support with Black Americans, one of the Democratic Party s most loyal constituencies.

Perhaps the most urgent: More Black men said they plan to back Donald Trump this fall, according to a recent Wall Street Journal poll of seven swing states.

While most Black men said they intend to support Biden, some 30% of them in the poll said they were either definitely or probably going to vote for the former Republican president. There isn t comparable WSJ swing-state polling from 2020, but Trump received votes from 12% of Black men nationwide that year, as recorded by AP VoteCast, a large poll of the electorate.

In the WSJ poll, 11% of Black women said they were either definitely or probably going to vote for Trump. In 2020, the AP poll found, 6% of Black women nationwide backed Trump.

via www.wsj.com

So do Blacks who vote for Trump automatically become White? Asking for a friend.